Hey friend welcome to the mere Christians podcast I'm Jordan Rayner.

How does the gospel influence the work of mere Christians?

Those of us who aren't pastors or religious professionals,

but who work as lawyers, foresters, and assessors?

That's the question we explore every week and today I'm posing it to my friend

Ruth Cho Simons. She's a super talented artist, entrepreneur, and the author of multiple best-selling books, including a new book that I

recently read and loved called Now and Not Yet. Ruth and I recently discussed

how we can be content with what God has already given us while striving for what's next in our careers.

Ruth shared four questions that she asks to help her see her circumstances the way that God does and then Ruth got super honest about how she is currently processing a disappointing slowdown in her once rapidly growing business.

Trust me, you're going to love this great episode with my friend Ruth Cho Simons.

Ruth Cho Simons.

Ruth Cho Simons, welcome back to the Mir Christians podcast.

It's good to have you. So honored be back Jordan it's been four years since we had you in the show and I believe that since then Brittany Spears

posted one of your pieces of art on Instagram is this true I've heard rumors of this I feel like

that happened before we talked that was a long time ago what is this story you know

years ago before I became Rich

Simon's on Instagram, it was just Grace Laced.

And one time she posted my Lord's Prayer painting.

That print is no longer in the shop now, but at the time it was and she tagged me and I went over there and I gasped and thought okay not only did she know where it came from she tagged Grace Grace Laced, and then following that was some

inappropriate picture of her. So I didn't point a lot of people to that

particular feed, but you know better than that, one time I got a call from the Lifeway stores that Justin Beaver and

Salina had been in to buy a bunch of my Gracely's things in the Lifeway stores.

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